From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] configure misery
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:51:49 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bf01c3aa39$68be0fd0$8201a8c0@cc77109e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c40d2beae31a26c28b62b84dbf5acba0@hamnavoe.com>
Not known to work reliably on any system, but the code is huge.
Open Sores that won't heal. Don't trust a shell script larger than
your kernel!
brucee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Miller" <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] configure misery
> > ; ls -lt */configure
> > --rwxr--r-- M 108286 geoff collyer 716640 May 17 21:53 imagemagick/configure
> > --rwx------ M 108286 geoff collyer 100023 Nov 7 2000 bochs/configure
> > --rwxr-xr-x M 108286 geoff collyer 33106 Apr 27 1996 groff-1.09/configure
> >
> > It really doesn't need a 23,000-line shell script to set up some
> > makefiles and generate a few #define lines.
>
> Moreover, if you google for imagemagick configure it appears that it doesn't
> work properly even on Linux.
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-13 22:51 UTC|newest]
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2003-11-13 22:51 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2003-11-13 23:10 ` Charles Forsyth
[not found] <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE479CA3@black.aprote.com>
2003-11-13 16:17 ` Taj Khattra
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